American throngs pay tribute to Lillian Anderson in Racine, Wisconsin. Women dressed in hats and costumes. World's Fair Queen, Lillian Anderson being escorted on the throne. Anderson being paraded with her court of fifty attendants into the fair on opening day. The attendants wearing white and cream dresses and broad rimmed hats. Lillian Anderson smiles at reviewing stand. Convoy of cars drives past the crowd.

Cannery labors' strike in Racine,Wisconsin. Cannery labors protest holding placards through the streets in Racine. Farmers plow undergrowing crops with tractors due to the strike by the cannery labors. Children celebrate a Roman holiday and play on a farm.

Dairymen protest in Mukwonago, Wisconsin during Great Depression. They protest to maintain a higher price level for their product. Men gather outside a building. Milk containers being loaded on a truck. Containers on the ground. Men spilling milk from a truckload along a road to reduce supply and influence price.

Washington Park Zoo monkeys arrive at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zoo monkeys set free on the island. They climb ladder and swim in the lake. Children watch the monkeys as they play. Monkeys in a small boat. The monkeys being set free from their cages and they roam in a playground.

Majority, but not all of clip shows Madison Wisconsin circa 1946. Clip opens with views of an unidentified town in the United States. Automobile traffic on street of the town. Long views in distance suggest possibly western United States. Next scene is a very brief view of a riverboat or steamboat on a river. Next scene is Main Street in Madison Wisconsin, with cars and trucks on street. Capitol building dome in Madison is visible in distance. Point of view from a moving vehicle of shops and businesses on West Main Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Businesses include The Drake; Fashion Shop; Chris Eckert; Edward Eckert at 125 and 127 W. Main Street. Next is "W. H. Hanger Plumbing and Heating at 123 West Main Street, Madison, Wisconsin. Then a Steak and Fried Chicken restaurant. Next is Margaret's Beauty Salon; Goodyear Tires; J.C. Penney Company. Scene changes to a house. A man comes out of a house carrying a fishing pole. Brief scene of two young men in a library.

Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Americans wait in unemployment lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the US, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps. Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting projects with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker.were put to work in a variety of projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a bridge work project in Los Angeles. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Train locomotives moving on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks and workers. A coal mining operation. Two coal miners take a break and eat. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.